NDLEA seizes 1,818 kg of cannabis in Ondo and destroys a one-hectare farm
NDLEA operatives recovered 1,818 kg of cannabis packed in 148 bags in a raid on Odofin Road, Uso, in Ondo State, destroyed a one-hectare cannabis farm in Board Forest and recovered a further 242 kg. Officers arrested 36-year-old Itoro Linus Akpan in operations reported on 8 November 2026.
NDLEA operatives raided Odofin Road in Uso, Ondo State, and recovered 1,818 kg
of cannabis packed in 148 bags.[1][2][3][4][5]In the same operations the agency destroyed
a one-hectare cannabis farm in Board Forest and recovered another 242 kg of the
drug.[1][2][3][5]Officers arrested 36-year-old Itoro Linus Akpan in connection with
the Ondo raids.[1][3][4][5]
The same roundup reported a further 16.15 kg of Loud cannabis concealed inside
two wooden sofas sent from Houston to Lagos, which is a separate seizure left
out of this report’s figures.[1]
Both Ondo operations took place on Friday 6 November 2026, the day the agency’s own statement gives for the Odofin Road raid and for the earlier Board Forest farm raid.[3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The roundup does not give a separate date for the Ondo raid or the Board Forest operation; 8 November 2026, the date of the NDLEA statement and of publication, stands in for the incident date.
The sources do not state whether the 1,818 kg seized from the bags, the 242 kg recovered during the Board Forest operation and the cannabis destroyed on the one-hectare farm are included in one another, so this report records their sum, 2,060 kg, as the cannabis seized or destroyed figure.
No plant count is given for the one-hectare Board Forest farm.
The report does not say whether Itoro Linus Akpan was arrested at Uso or at the Board Forest farm, and no charges, court date or outcome were reported.
No independent reporting of the Ondo figures could be opened; the account rests on one outlet's report of the NDLEA statement.
The article also reports other cannabis seizures, including 16.15 kg of Loud in Lagos, 6.07 kg in Apapa, 216 kg in Ekiti, 201 kg in Edo and 226.255 kg in Taraba, which are separate events left out of this report.
The headline case of 87 wraps of cocaine (1.150 kg) is not cannabis and is left out of cannabis figures.
The same roundup reports other separate cannabis seizures (Lagos 16.15 kg Loud, courier 22.2 kg, Apapa 6.07 kg, Ekiti 216 kg, Edo 201 kg, Taraba 226.255 kg, Enugu 22.5 kg, Delta cases) and synthetic-cannabis chemicals, which belong to other reports and are left out here.
The opened accounts do not say whether the 1,818 kg, the 242 kg and the cannabis destroyed on the one-hectare plantation are counted separately, so the report keeps their sum, 2,060 kg.
The report does not say whether the 36-year-old suspect was arrested at Uso or at the Board Forest farm, and no charges or court date were reported.
No plant count or value is given for the Board Forest farm or for the 148 bags.
The NDLEA statement gives 6 November 2026 for both the Odofin Road raid and the Board Forest farm raid, which answers the report's open question about the date of the operations.
NDLEA operatives stopped a car on the Auchi-Ibillo Road in Akoko Edo, Edo State, and seized 19 bags of cannabis weighing 201 kg in a roundup of cannabis seizures reported on 8 November 2026. The same roundup reported a Benin City drug-joint raid, three arrests at a Taraba checkpoint with 226.255 kg of compressed cannabis, and further raids in Ondo and Lagos.
NDLEA officers found 16.15 kg of Loud cannabis hidden in two wooden sofas from Houston at Lagos airport on 4 November 2026. A freight agent who came to clear the cargo and a caterer who came to collect it were arrested.
NDLEA officers at Lagos airport found 1.20 kilogrammes of cannabis in two of nine parcels hidden in cartons of snacks from the United Kingdom, and arrested a 51-year-old freight agent who came to clear them. The other seven parcels held chemicals for making synthetic cannabis, and a sting in late October 2026 led to a second arrest.
NDLEA operatives at courier companies in Lagos intercepted 46 blocks of cannabis weighing 22.2 kg packed in two cartons bound for the United Kingdom on 3 November 2026. The agency announced the export seizure in a roundup of other operations and reported no arrest over the consignment.